This Research Guide focuses on how to find and use instruments of international organizations and is mainly intended to be a practical instrument for students at an advanced level, lawyers and public servants. It offers a detailed description on how to do research in sources of international law in the most efficient way.

This book systematically and exhaustively analyses existing PIL rules and issues in EU and national legislation, covering all EU Member States in the process. It then demonstrates that the characteristics of PIL themselves imply a framework for “general issues” – independently from language, codification or underlying legal tradition.

This book explores and challenges common assumptions about gender, conflict, and post-conflict situations. It critically examines the gendered aspects of international and transitional justice processes by subverting traditional understandings of how wars are waged, the power dynamics involved, and the experiences of victims.

A health insurance system or a taxation-funded National Health Service (NHS)? Universal healthcare provision or marketization and competition? This book explores the development of competition policy in Dutch and English healthcare in light of tensions arising from these seemingly opposed ideas.

This collection of essays addresses the most pressing contemporary issues in international law and relations. The authors are leading experts and renowned actors on the international stage or in national jurisdictions.

Although rooted in a similar ideal, human rights (IHRL), international criminal law (ICL) and international humanitarian law (IHL) are separate fields of law, best represented as circles, each of which overlaps with the other two. However human rights often seems to absorb the other two, while in other situations, the lines between human rights law and its next door neighbours are blurred or contested.